468                              JOINT RESOLUTIONS

for the purchase of private hunting property with the number of
hunting licenses purchased in the year 1963, 228,471, which means an
expenditure by the State of 12 and ¾¢ per hunter per year for the
ten year period; and

Whereas, It seems desirable and necessary that an investigation
should be made of this situation by a commission of interested per-
sons; now, therefore be it

Resolved by the General Assembly of Maryland, That the Governor
of Maryland is directed to appoint a commission of not more than
nine persons to investigate all means to provide more hunting spaces
for the Maryland hunter in the rural areas of the State in order to
protect the interest of hunters, which study should include considera-
tion of the following matters: acceleration of a program of acquir-
ing public hunting grounds with increased funds for this purpose;
provision for propagation of game; additional recreational facilities
for hunters; investigation of the degree of cooperation among State
agencies for the benefit of the hunters of the State; and be it further

Resolved, That copies of this Resolution are sent to the Governor
of Maryland and to the Director of the Department of Game and
Inland Fish.

Approved April 7, 1964.

No. 16
(House Joint Resolution 35)

House Joint Resolution urging Federal safety officials to take neces-
sary action to safeguard the working conditions of longshoremen
and stevedores in the Port of Baltimore.

Whereas, members of the General Assembly are informed that
hazardous conditions affecting the safety and working climate of
longshoremen and stevedores in the Port of Baltimore exist which
call for the taking of immediate steps of correction; and

Whereas, dangerous conditions are being caused by the continued
use of old and inadequate equipment which causes carbon monoxide
gas to be released, imperiling the life and health of longshoremen and
stevedores working in the harbor area; and

Whereas, so widespread was the danger that on one occasion
during 1962 four cases of monoxide poisoning were hospitalized dur-
ing one day, and others less seriously harmed, were nevertheless sick
enough to be sent home for the day; and

Whereas, no recourse can be expected from the labor unions, be-
cause inter-union fraction in the port insures that no longshoremen
or stevedore can afford, at the risk of losing his job, to complain about
any aspect of his job; and